The five-colored, six-lustrous innate true yuan appeared desolate in the dark lake water, floating on each of their weapons as they launched a joint attack towards the top of the Tianhong Water Palace. The human strongmen who had not yet reached the Innate Golden Elixir stage were watching from the side, and Teng Qing Shan noticed the three monks from the Mani Temple: "The Buddhist sect's masters are indeed unusual, that purple-red iron rod has a faint golden glow."

  Rumble...

  The top of it all shook violently, and a faint greenish glow quickly flowed along the edge of the gap.

  Twelve super strong men blasted a hole with a width of about one and a half zhang.

  "Everyone, the cave entrance is getting smaller, hurry up and get in!"

  As soon as Ying Haojiang's voice fell, the first wave of twelve super strong men surrounding the cave entrance quickly jumped down one after another.

  Fast.

  "The entrance has narrowed!"

  One by one, the innate experts spoke up and quickly jumped down. Teng Qing Shan naturally followed suit and swiftly leaped into the top entrance of the cave. As he jumped, the entrance had already shrunk to only a zhang in width.

  As soon as his foot touched the ground, Teng Qing Shan immediately dodged to the side. The person who jumped down behind him landed in the position he was just in.

  "It's pitch black." Teng Qing Shan looked around and found himself surrounded by a group of people, with green walls on both sides. Everyone was in an alley, with a fork in the road ahead. However... whether it was the wall or the ground, everything was uniformly green.

  "This place, it's like the snowy alleyway in CS back in the day. As a top-notch killer, one must know some basic common sense in society, including social etiquette and whatnot. It's essential for disguise. And as CS was a popular game during Teng Qing Shan's time, he must have played it at least a few times and has a general understanding of the game."

  That day Hong Shui Gong was pitch black, others might not be able to see clearly. But Teng Qing Shan had the power of night vision and could see clearly.

  Greenish ground, greenish walls, greenish top, straight alleys, a completely sealed environment. Here, there is no reference object to distinguish the direction.

  "Even if one has a good sense of direction, after wandering around this place for a while, it's likely that they won't be able to tell east from west!" Teng Qing Shan thought to himself. However, from the moment he landed until now, only two breaths had passed. Clearly, Teng Qing Shan's thinking speed was extremely fast.

  "Everyone's down!" Teng Qing Shan looked up and saw that the entrance had shrunk to only three feet wide.

  In the Tianhong Water Palace, on one of the pitch-black alleys, a total of fifty-three human powerhouses gathered here.

  "In the Hongshui Palace today, there isn't any water!" A loud cry of surprise came from a master of the Shooting Mountain.

  "Big brother, what's so strange about this? Earlier, 'Beast King' Wu Hou rushed into the Tian Hong Water Palace and didn't we already say that there was no water inside the Tian Hong Water Palace?"

  "Of course I remember, but junior brother, what's strangest is that just now we were blown out of the cave entrance, so why didn't the water flow down from the entrance?"

  Originally, due to the dark and gloomy Heavenly Flood Palace, everyone was on high alert, fearing that there might be some kind of demonic beast. However, no one noticed this point.

  Obviously there is an opening, why hasn't the water flowed down?

  "It's really like that." Teng Qing Shan looked up and saw that there was only a hole the size of a watermelon, with a faint green glow flowing in it, but no water flowed out.

  Hong Qingshan took a deep breath.

  "What fresh air!" Zeng Qing Shan felt even stranger in his heart. This Hong Shui Palace, the palace gate was wide open, and it was clear that he had been blown out of the cave entrance before, but no water came in. Secondly, such a large palace was completely sealed at the bottom of the water. But why... the air was so fresh?

  Teng Qing Shan furrowed his brow as he looked around, all of this was indeed very strange.

  "This is Yu Huang's trick!"

  Ying Haojiang's eyes scanned the surroundings, "Don't say those useless words anymore. Now, what's important is to find the Yu Huang treasure, get the treasure, and leave this place. Third brother, you guys scatter around and take a look at the situation."

  "Good."

  There were six members of the Ying family in black uniforms scattered around, each relying on their innate true yuan halo to barely see within a distance of nearly ten zhang. The Tian Hong Water Palace had no water inside, so everyone could see further. If they were in lake water, they could usually only watch within a range of several zhang.

  "Junior brother, you all go take a look around the front and back." The Carefree Palace also started to disperse.

  "Master's nephew, you four go and take a look around." Qing Hu Island, Yuwen Liu Feng with white temples on both sides of his forehead instructed calmly. Immediately, the four Pre-Heavenly True Dans dispersed to explore their surroundings.

  All parties did not rush around in a hurry, but instead carefully explored their surroundings first.

  "Qin Lang, let's go and take a look too." The young man in white, Liu Xiu, couldn't help but want to explore as well.

  "Uh-huh."

  Teng Qing Shan immediately moved forward, the alley was straight, twenty zhang ahead there was a crossroads, further ahead it was a dead end. Teng Qing Shan didn't need to walk over to see that thirty zhang away was a sealed wall, completely blocking off the alley.

  Standing at the crossroads.

  Hong Qingshan looked around to his left and right at dawn.

  Still the green walls, on the left side of the alley there is a fork in the road, and the fork leads to a dead end. On the right side of the alley, however, there are as many as four forks in the road, and if you keep going forward, it's also a dead end.

  Labyrinth!

  Hong Qing Shan took a single glance and completely figured it out, "If I'm not mistaken, the entire Tian Hong Water Palace is probably this type of maze. The alleys are all three zhang wide, some are dead ends, while others have forked paths. The walls, floor, and ceiling are all cyan!"

  Hong Qingshan took a deep breath of cool air.

  This labyrinth is so troublesome! Generally, there's only one path to life, the others are all dead ends! One wrong step and every subsequent step will be wrong! In his past life, Qing Shan would usually practice this kind of maze during his breaks.

  "This Hongshui Palace, at least tens of miles in circumference! Generally, about twenty zhang is just one alley... If calculated this way, the alleys inside, at least 10,000! This doesn't even include the small alleys..." Teng Qing Shan instantly calculated the rough numbers, his face subtly changing color.

  Even with his memory and specially trained abilities.

  If there is no map, it would be impossible to find a way out by the process of elimination, recording routes one by one and ruling them out one by one. It would probably take at least a year or two to do so, and in that amount of time, I would have starved to death long ago.

  "If I start from the entrance and exclude, find the only channel. Maybe it can be done in ten days or half a month. Because the alley at the palace gate is definitely correct. And now inside the maze...it's troublesome."

  Teng Qing Shan looked back and saw Yu Wen Liu Feng and Hu Chang Lao still at the gathering spot. "They want to escape, but they can't make a swift getaway or it will attract attention." Teng Qing Shan ran to the next fork in the road and observed for a moment, indeed...

  It doesn't matter which one, it's all this kind of alleyway.

  "Go back!"

  Teng Qing Shan quickly rushed back and returned to the original alley, where Yu Wen Liu Feng was still there. From a distance, Teng Qing Shan heard the intense discussion: "It's all the same everywhere! It's pitch black, and some alleys are dead ends!"

  "It's a labyrinth!"

  "Doesn't even know which road to take."

  "I had just walked two forks in the road, and I turned around to take a look, but got lost. If I hadn't heard the voices of a group of people talking over here, I probably wouldn't have been able to find my way back."

  "This labyrinth has walls that all look the same, it's easy to get lost."

  Those innate strongmen, some of whom had just explored and were completely intimidated by the surrounding road conditions.

  "I can see very far with my eyes, and I have a knack for this kind of maze. But in a year or two, I may not necessarily find the real road. They? Their eyes can't see very far..." Teng Qing Shan thought to himself, "In this kind of maze, Yu Huang must have left behind a maze map!"

  Hong Qingshan's gaze swept towards a group of people on Qinghu Island.

  "Hmm?" Teng Qing Shan sneered and walked towards the crowd.

  ……

  Yuwen Liu Feng and Hu Zhang Lao, while instructing the four Pre-Heavenly True Essence Dan explorers, also secretly instructed: "After you disperse to explore, we will gather later. Don't come here, but instead go to that fork in the road to our left front, we'll meet there."

  Other sects' masters thought that the people of Qinghu Island were exploring.

  In fact, they were quietly transferring places. The four congenital strongmen of the Dan had all transferred to the fork in the road to the left front. While Yuwen Liufeng and Hu Changlao were watching the situation, preparing to find an opportunity to transfer.

  Yuwen Liu and Hu Changlao were already standing quite far away, about 70 or 80 feet from the crowd. Only a few people noticed them.

  "Go!"

  Yuwen Liu and Hu Zhanglao both simultaneously retracted the innate true yuan from their bodies, instantly turning pitch black.

  Huh! Huh!

  The two of them swiftly and quietly flew to the left, in the dark environment, their bodies did not reveal any innate true yuan, and others could not see them. Moreover, these two also firmly remembered the route ahead, although they couldn't see it, they could still rush to the meeting point.

  "Where are you two from Qinghu Island going?" A loud and clear voice echoed in the palace alley, reverberating continuously.

  "They escaped!"

  "Qinghu Island has escaped!" One by one, the congenital strongmen's bodies glowed with a halo and ran in all directions.

  In almost a breath of time, including Teng Qing Shan, three innate experts rushed to the left front fork. Others were blind, and a large group of people scattered to each fork. But Teng Qing Shan saw it from afar.

  At this moment, the six people on Qinghu Island were still in the alley.

  "They're here!"

  Shouts erupted! A group of innate experts quickly gathered here, Teng Qing Shan was calmly watching the six people from Qing Hu Island in the alleyway. The six people all had shocked and furious expressions on their faces. They didn't know what lay ahead, if they didn't raise their halos, they would be like blind men running wildly, easily crashing into walls.

  And if you hold up the light shield, it's easy for others to find out.

  "How can you react so quickly?" Yuwen Liu Feng and a group of people couldn't believe it.

  "What are they running from?"

  "This maze is hard to get out of, it's as difficult as ascending to heaven! There must be a map of the maze!" The murmurs started one after another. Upon hearing this, Teng Qing Shan couldn't help but smile on his face.

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